{"id":333103,"date":"2025-12-08T20:39:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333103\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:39:05","slug":"uk-prime-minister-sir-keir-starmer-sends-message-to-lando-norris-after-wdc-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333103\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer sends message to Lando Norris after WDC victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has congratulated Lando Norris on his Formula 1 drivers’ championship victory.<\/p>\n

The British driver secured the title after finishing the season finale in Abu Dhabi in third behind Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri in second. Norris’s win has drawn a lot of praise from within the F1 paddock but also further afield.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After Norris became the 11th world champion from Great Britain, Starmer posted on social media: “Congratulations, Lando Norris, Britain\u2019s new F1 champion! An unbelievable season and so well deserved.”<\/p>\n

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Starmer also commented on the championship win during a public event in Surrey on Monday 8 December.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s amazing to be here the day after Lando won yesterday,” he told the crowd. “And I hope you\u2019ve all got a smile on your faces because that interview with him afterwards – which I hope you\u2019ve all seen – very emotional interview with him after he had won\u2026<\/p>\n

“But I thought the way in which he wanted to thank the whole of his team was really important because he was emphasising that he\u2019s the person obviously doing the racing but that can\u2019t happen without the whole McLaren team at every level working with him and for him.<\/p>\n

“And I hope you felt a bit of pride for him, what he\u2019s achieved, because everything that you all do, all the teamwork you put in is all part of what produces that incredible result – and it was an incredible result. So it\u2019s fantastic to be here today.”<\/p>\n

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Lando Norris, McLaren<\/p>\n

Photo by: Erik Junius<\/p>\n

British F1 champions<\/p>\n

Norris joins an impressive list of British F1 champions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mike Hawthorn: 1958
Graham Hill: 1962, 1968
Jim Clark: 1963, 1965
John Surtees: 1964
Sir Jackie Stewart: 1969, 1971, 1973
James Hunt: 1976
Nigel Mansell: 1992
Damon Hill: 1996
Sir Lewis Hamilton: 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Jenson Button: 2009
Lando Norris: 2025<\/p>\n

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